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FORMER DIPLOMAT REVEALS SECRET STATE DEPT. ATTACKS ON 1980s ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTIONS

8 hours ago ago from Noni_no\'s

I worked very closely with one of the senior aides to one of those Congressmen. This man was a master of House procedure. This was my next great learning experience - how much of what happens or doesn t happen on the Hill depends on finessing procedure. What they wanted from us primarily were lots of short speeches. Three minute speeches, two minute speeches, that they could pass out on the subject on why this was a bad idea. Why this could ...

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Iraqi Kurds voice anger at Turkish ban on Kurdish party

14 hours ago ago from News Essentials

Iraqi Kurds voice anger at Turkish ban on Kurdish party by Staff Writers Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Dec 15, 2009 The Turkish constitutional court outlawed the DTP on Friday on the grounds that it was linked to the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has led a deadly insurgency in the country's southeast since 1984 Iraq's Kurds on Tuesday slammed a Turkish court's ban on the main Turkish Kurdish political party and said it hoped the ...

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Boxer, Lieberman, Sanchez Add New Support to Genocide Resolution

16 hours ago ago from Armenian Weekly

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Representative Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) this week became the most recent additions to the growing bipartisan group of legislators supporting the Armenian Genocide Resolution (S.Res.316 and H.Res.252), reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). The new support for this human rights legislation comes in the wake of Turkish Prime Minister ...

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Turkey finds 39 leftists guilty after 28-year trial

4 hours ago ago from Open Your Eyes News

BBC A trial in Turkey, which has lasted nearly 28 years, has finally concluded.A panel of judges found 39 of the 1,223 defendants guilty of trying to topple the government and constitution, and sentenced them to life imprisonment. The charges against other defendants were dropped because of the time that had elapsed. They were all alleged members of an extreme left-wing organisation, Dev-Sol, who were arrested in the wake of the country's ...

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Two killed at pro-Kurdish protest | Herald de Paris

21 hours ago ago from Herald de Paris

By Wire News Sources on December 15, 2009 Two people have been shot dead and several wounded during a pro-Kurdish demonstration in south-east Turkey, local media report. A shopkeeper was detained after opening fire on demonstrators when his shop was attacked, Turkish news agencies said. The crowd were protesting against the banning of Turkey's main Kurdish party - the Democratic Society Party (DTP). Turkey's ...

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BBC News - Two killed at pro-Kurdish protest

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The deaths followed clashes between Kurds and police in eastern Turkey Two people have been shot dead and several wounded during a pro-Kurdish demonstration in south-east Turkey, local media report. A shopkeeper was detained after opening fire on demonstrators when his shop was attacked, Turkish news agencies said. The crowd were protesting against the banning of Turkey's main Kurdish party - the Democratic Society Party ...

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